NIS further distinguishes itself by earning Microsoft's Gold Partner Status

NIS, today announced it has attained Microsoft's Gold Certified Partner status, this follows it's achievement as an IBM accredited business partner. The company continues to endorse it's expertise and impact in the technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified Partner, NIS has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet customers' needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recieve a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the channel.

Steven Ball, Senior Technical Consultant at NIS comments "We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. This allows us to clearly promote our expertise and relationship with Microsoft to our customers".

Martin Spencer, a company director said "The benefits provided through our Gold Certified Partner status will allow us to reassure and enhance the offerings that we provide for customers."

"Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technological capabilities," Alison Watson, corporate vice president of the worldwide partner group at Microsoft Corp. "They need to trust in a company that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies. Today, Microsoft recognises Network Integrity Services Limited as a new Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating it's expertise in provideing customer satisfaction using Microsoft products and technology."

Network Integrity Services has recently completed a cutting edge Virtualisation project utilising their VMware and Microsoft Server 2008 expertise. The client is one of the North East’s largest independent merchants.

The project will support over 100 users across more than 8 locations in the UK processing large transaction volumes in a customer facing environment. The VMware infrastructure will consist of two large IBM rack servers with high availability.  The set-up will remove the need to have more than a dozen physical severs thereby saving energy costs whilst catering for server failover as a low cost option. 

Ewan Leith (Principal Consultant at Network Integrity Services) comments

– “Network Integrity Services continues to focus on cutting customers bottom line operational costs whilst delivering performance and productivity benefits.”

As a leading IBM Partner; VMware Partner and Microsoft Gold Business Partner, the company continues to provide end to end technical solutions to some of industries most prestigious clients. 

To learn more about Virtualisation please click here to our partner VMware’s website.

A new study by analysts at IDC have found from a survey of Falconstor customers that they were achieving an excellent return on investment of 448% with a payback period of less than 6 months, alongside significant improvements in system reliability.

The customers involved had all deployed one or more of the Falconstor VTL, NSS and CDP solutions to improve their data protection strategies.

For the full report, visit Falconstor, and if you have have questions about Falconstor products please call Network Integrity Services on 0845 004 7258 or send us an email

Network Integrity Services partners Falconstor have launched their newest storage product, the File-interface Deduplication System, which significantly reduces the amount of disk space required to store your backup and archive data, achieving a reduction of as much as 20 times.

Combining block-level deduplication with industry-standard CIFS and NFS connectivity,  the Falconstor FDS storage array is the easiest way to migrate your legacy backup systems to modern disk based technology, and the ability to perform multi-site replication gives you an easy and affordable way to significantly improve your DR abilities.

Available as either a dedicated physical array or as a virtual storage array running under VMware, Falconstor FDS is an incredbly flexible and cost-effective storage solution.

For more information on all the Falconstor products, please contact Network Integrity Services. 

Following on from our successful integration of the Canto Technologies business, NIS are pleased to announce we have purchased Leicester based Ulysses IT.

Ulysses IT provide a range of computer support services across the UK, and will continue to trade as a separate business.

Martin Spencer, one of the directors of NIS, said Ulysses IT is an awesome business, “The company has a fantastic reputation within the industry and is a company Leicester should be proud of. We are not planning to change anything about the business. There’s no reason to; nothing is broken. The business will stay in Leicester with the same name, same staff, and same great customer service.”

Network Integrity Services partner Falconstor have launched a fantastic offering for all small and medium sized businesses, a free iSCSI SAN virtual machine. The Falconstor Network Storage Server (NSS) virtual appliance lets SMBs gain the benefits of storage virtualization, advanced provisioning, and enterprise quality data protection, without making the massive investment typically required by traditional storage providers.

The Falconstor NSS virtual machine can be deployed on new or existing VMware environments, and re-uses existing storage devices, turning basic local storage into an advanced shared storage system with snapshots, replication , and mirroring.

The Free iSCSI SAN offering provides up to 2 TB of storage capacity, 8 Timemark and Snapshot copies, mirroring, replication with compression and encryption, and 5 data center clients, and can by upgraded in place if you outgrow the provided capabilities.

If you require any more information on the Falconstor NSS or any of the other Falconstor offerings, please call Network Integrity Services on 0845 004 7258

Network Integrity Services Ltd are pleased to announce we have achieved the Microsoft Certified Partner, Networking Infrastructure Solutions, and Small Business Specialist status.

As part of our ongoing partnership with IBM, we have launched a new IBM showcase section of our website, where you can see a wide range of IBM products available from Network Integrity Services.

Covering everything from IBM system P servers and storage to business consultancy services, NIS can help you utilise the full power of IBM.

Canto is an Altrincham based company providing Technical services to 23 SME customers committed on 3 to 5 year maintenance contracts, other accounts are serviced on a Time and Material based arrangement. The acquisition represents a good fit to the existing NIS Technical services business with opportunities to increase customer benefits by cross selling value add services whilst taking advantage of efficiency gains. This is an important step in our development therefore, as you can imagine we are very excited by the opportunity to deliver the potential we believe Canto offers.

During the short-term Canto will continue to trade as a separate business with a view to possibly migrating to NIS at a later date. The transaction has been completed on very favourable cash-flow terms leaving NIS strongly positioned to pursue further controlled growth.

Premier Forest Products move to the hosting centre.

Premier's meteoric growth will be catered for by the flexibility offered by this solution. The move also upgraded the users from Windows 2000 to 2003 providing all users with the latest offerings from Microsoft.